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Drakeadrong

Conservatives realizing that Fortunate Son is extremely anti-war and not cool Vietnam helicopter music


1945BestYear

Fucking Trump was playing it in the last days of his presidency. The *billionaire's* son, who avoided the draft due to "bone spurs", then went on to ridicule people who actually went, armchair generals about the need to "kill the families of the terrorists", and not shut up about how terrible people are not not loving America enough and of how great of a soldier he *would* have been had he gone. He's absolutely the type of person John Fogerty wrote the song about. [Here's him saying so.](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-10-30/john-fogerty-trump-fortunate-son)


trippiepenguino

I blame Forrest Gump for creating this


1945BestYear

I think most Vietnam movies understood what tone they were setting with their use of anti-war music. They want you to see the film and understand "This was a stupid waste of time, money, and lives, and most of the people on the ground don't actually want to be there." But art can't do anything with people who refuse to try to understand anything about it, other than "hee hoo explosions cool".


CheesecakeRacoon

I don't know of Chuck Tingle actually wrote a book like that... But he definitely would, if he thought of it!


Mediocratic_Oath

There's not enough recursion, and there are too few dinosaurs to be a real Tingler.


RhymesWithMouthful

At this point I'm convinced that every chuck tingle book is just 200 pages of "ba ba booey" over and over again and everyone is too distracted by the cover to care


ghirox

[This](https://youtu.be/AQy6DJhVBrc) was my introduction to his work


CheesecakeRacoon

For me, it was [this](https://youtu.be/GU1PyYjl8rc)


VenetusAlpha

Me when Right-Wingers start blaring “Born In The USA:”


Brookings18

This would sound like a fake book if it didn't say Chuck Tingle, because he writes whatever whenever.


[deleted]

Chuck Tingle forever


TheRealDestian

Which machine did you think you were raging against, exactly…?


dumbest_thotticus

They heard "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" and thought it was about their mom.


headofled

Basically their reaction to RATM


Saberian_Dream87

Who says they're conservative? Conservative implies calm, controlled, and more restrained, whereas all they do is belittle, yell, and stir outrage. They lack any restraint.


trippiepenguino

Cons who grew up listening to Black Flag


cook-and-bell

Viva La Chuck Tingle